Students on trans-continent journey make stop in N.B. along the way
American students riding for “hope, knowledge and charity” visited North Battleford during a 10-week, continent-touring bicycle ride to raise money for cancer research.
Sixty-six University of Texas students will make the trek from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska in a 10-week annual charity ride called the Texas 4000. Yesterday, July 18, 22 of those students arrived in the city.
Arin Madera said she was inspired to join the ride in honour of her grandmother, who passed away from cancer last year, and her aunt Kathy who’s battling brain, bone and lung cancer.
“To me the ride is this metaphor, and of course it doesn’t at all compare to having cancer, but it’s a little way that I can kind of fight beside my aunt,” she said. “I ride for my grandmother and my aunt Kathy but I’ve come to ride for everyone that I’ve met along the way this summer because you meet someone every day that you want to ride for.”